Mao's 'cultural revolution' ripples out across the whole country and affects everybody. It begins as an emperor's reassertion of power, but ends in complete disaster. Ten in every classroom and every bedroom by the end of it, isn't it? Tens of millions of people die in the Great Leap Forward. And then we go on to see factional fighting between red guard violence when that is over.

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